A Greco EG-700T handcrafted in 1978.

Please take a look on its strange top.  Its half is plane and the other half is well figured maple, so I named this guitar “Chimera Tiger”.  I have never seen such a guitar with strong laterality like this.

When craftsmen arrange the top material of Les paul, they ordinary select a center sliced maple just like a book opened at its median page in order to make symmetry of top texture, so it’s called “book match”.  But If there are flaws on either one, they keep the better one until they find one with similar color or texture.  These ways of arrangement are summarized “frich match”, the former is “color match” and the latter is “texture match”.

In the early age of Les Paul, Gibson craftsmen manufactured many guitars with chimera figure like this one because they didn’t consider texture match then.  But that story was a in the history of Gibson, not of Greco.  To the best of my knowledge, Japanese companies including Greco also seem to had placed less importance on value of figure than now.

2-layer mahogany body, maple neck, striped ebony fingerboard, MH804 pegs, U2000 pickups, pearloid cell inlays were specified.  Ebony fingerboard was adapted EG-700 and upper grades, Pearl oyster inlays were embedded on EG-800 and upper grades.  4.42kg(includes strings). (Updated 2016.8.24)